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This 2018 short film was presented by Dust in 2020.

It's kind of like Groundhog Day, except the resets are intentional. It also reminds me of One Minute Time Machine, a short that I thought was a lot better than this. But this one's still good.

A man named Ed has invented a device that allows him to set a "save point" that he will go back to after he dies. He's sitting in a diner telling his friend Carrie about this, and eventually reveals that there's a woman sitting at another booth named Sarah, whom he's fallen in love with, despite having never met her. Well, sort of never met her. He keeps killing himself to try different approaches to introducing himself (most of which we don't see; he's tried thousands of times). Carrie is upset that she's been stuck in this same period of a few minutes for like three years now, even though she has no memory of the passage of that time, like Ed does. So... will Ed ever get things right and get the girl? I won't spoil that. But the ending is definitely unexpected (well, you'll probably guess what's going to happen a couple of seconds before it does). But it's amusing, like the whole film. Mostly amusing, anyway.